Lo, the Impolite Indian
adier General Joseph A. Harmar merits our approbation.” I wonder what the 183 dead men thought about it.
It would seem that foresights and hindsights, working together would sidetrack any future chance for such a catastrophe. Not a bit. One year later the same thing happened, only worse. General St. Clair, with 1,400 regulars and militia, was attacked by a nearly equal force of Indians, and routed. Think of that, by a nearly equal force. They were not overpowered, not outnumbered. Man to man the Indians beat the militia. St. Clair’s army was destroyed, with a loss of 632 killed and 264 wounded, which exceeds the total killed at the battles of Long Island and Camden, the two bloodiest affairs of the Revolutionary War. This wasn’t a fight, it was a massacre.
The House of Representatives immediately appointed another committee for another investigation. Foreseeing the future after it had occurred, this Committee reported that “the militia appeared to have been composed
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